What does TANU stand for?

The unspoken gesture of appreciation for the SPLM by South Sudanese is not unique to Sudan South as it is the trends of almost all Pan-African nationalist parties that rose during or shortly after the partition and colonization of Africa by European imperialists for example the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party of Kenya was the de facto party from independence to middle 1990s, and so did the Popular Movement of the Revolution party of Zaire enjoyed de jure single party systems from 1967 -1990s, and the Revolutionary Party or former Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party of Tanzania (1954-1992) (example parties' acronyms are too long and will bore some so I will stop but you get the point).

The Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) Party, which in 1972 emerged from the union of Nyerere's Tanganyika African National Union and Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi Party, remains in power and is still the dominant player in politics.

He became the first black graduate in British-administered Tanganyika and in 1954 formed the Tanganyika African National Union to campaign for independence.